josecarre Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) Hi, i'm getting listed on 'visitors origin' in Prestashop some addresses from .ru domains. The strange part is that according to Google Analytics I didnt have any visit from Russia, and I have no Google listed Referrals from these sites ¿Should I worry? I checked my .htaccess file and I dont see anything I didnt put there... This are some of the sites listed in my back officce, with not many visits, as you can see: foto-star.ru 6 evoque.ru 2 duster-ru 2 astro.tomsk.ru 2 psvita.ru 2 sibavtotrak.ru 2 prestigedev.ru 2 giftsburg.ru 2 Edited September 28, 2012 by josecarre (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Don't worry. It could be bots or something like that... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjamin utterback Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Hello, yes, vekia is correct, it most certainly could be bots, which in 99% of cases are harmless. Sometimes our geolocation feature will highlight an IP in the middle of the ocean. Obviously not true. There is a nice article on securing PrestaShop after install here I hope that link helps you gain some insight. Thank you for choosing PrestaShop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperCharlie Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I was getting a lot of .ru visits and did a little research and found that some sites have bots which show these sites as the referrer so you will go look at them and increase their traffic so they will have more ad revenue. Since I have no clients from Russia, I banned the whole country at htaccess...booya. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josecarre Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 ty, guys, setting mode paranoid off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colectalia Posted June 1, 2013 Share Posted June 1, 2013 I had the same problem than you, dozens of visits from rare .ru websites, but surprisingly those visits did not come from Russia! I looked at their IP's and 99.90% of them came from Ukraine, so using the Geolocation function I blocked all visits from Ukraine, and those stupid visits finished at once. After blocking access from Ukrania I only got one visit from a .ru referrer, and to avoid it to come again to my site I simply banned visits from that website from .htaccess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vekia Posted June 2, 2013 Share Posted June 2, 2013 well, if you someone arent familiar with blocking ip adresses in .htaccess - i've got free addon for "ban" ip adress 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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